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How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are often the subject of some intense controversy, so I popped the hood on them.
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The Right Way to Write
I am going to write 8 blog posts before the end of the year. Hopefully 9 to make up for the lousy one, but don’t count on it. With about ~5 weeks on the clock, it’s certainly not going to be easy, and the posts certainly not quality. But I’m calling an audible on the…
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Living In Media Res
There’s this great Vsauce video that I’ve been thinking about lately where Michael discusses some of the Illusions of Time that everyone (at least in the modern age) seems to experience. In it, he fantastically labels the realization that not only do people spatially separated from oneself have their own lives, but also those separated…
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Oh, What Massive Monuments We Make
We haven’t truly harnessed the power of the free-market to create trailblazing monuments of the modern era analogous to the decade or century-long construction projects undertaken by those that came before us. Why?
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Micro g Production at Scale (and what it’ll cost)
Orbital manufacturing is the next layer of orbital infrastructure made possible by this decade’s launch technology. I explore its cost and promise.
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Life is Complex, Man
20th century science is a bizarre tapestry of insight, achievement, and doom. Something something about quantum, the computer, and the fusion/fission bombs. One of my favorites in the mosaic is Complexity Theory, the study of how nonlinear systems, often with incredibly simple constraints, and transition into spontaneously ordered states. It’s a relatively new field, burgeoning…
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Scaled-up Jogs
I’ve been running a ton recently, I’m training for the Austin Marathon. Race day is in about four weeks! The regimen has my cardio up to par with that of my high school self, when I played tennis about 20 hours a week. It’s been much more enjoyable than I anticipated, and the allure of…
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11 Things I learned as the Director of Operations at Texas Rocket Engineering Lab
In 2021, I served as the Director of Operations for the University of Texas at Austin’s flagship interdisciplinary rocket engineering lab, TREL. The position is effectively the student-lead for the two-year-old, 200+ member lab of undergrads and graduate students from all majors with all the makings of a CEO position at a startup – lots…
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2021 Report
This will be the first of hopefully a contiguous line of reviews of my experiences and habits of the previous year. This year was stunning. I didn’t blog on my 2020, but I had a relatively nice year even during that mess of a time – so the fact that 2021 stands out to me…
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A Fussy Feline
I have a 14-ish-year-old black cat that I get to reunite with every time I return home from school. He’s getting on in age, but either because of the way he has convinced my parents to coddle him or by luck of the genetic lottery, you wouldn’t really know it. He has always been a…
To Be Determined 